Imagination is generally regarded as a very powerful and advanced cognitive ability. In this paper we propose a modelling framework for what we call functional imagination: the ab...
Hugo Gravato Marques, Owen Holland, Richard Newcom...
Abstract. Workflow systems provide support for combining components to achieve a particular outcome. Various approaches from software engineering have been utilized within such sys...
Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Omer F. Rana, José...
Abstract. In this paper we focus on design of a class of distributed embedded systems that primarily perform real-time controlling tasks. We propose a two-layer component model for...
In this article, we revisit the problem of scheduling dynamically generated directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of multi-processor tasks (M-tasks). A DAG is a basic model for expressin...
Multi-agent based simulation (MABS) is a discrete event simulation technique used to study complex systems with entities having social and autonomous behavior. MABS applications a...